Wood breakfast bar on quartz worktop?

6 years ago

We would really like to have a wooden breakfast bar overhang for our kitchen. What we are unsure about that is that the worktop is quartz and what is the best way to install the breakfast bar.

Based on pictures I can find, it seems that you can either mount it on top of the quartz worktop or cut the worktop to fit the breakfast bar. See pics attached below. But when we asked our kitchen installer, he said he cannot install the breakfast bar on top of the quartz worktop.

Our worktop guy is coming to template tomorrow but we don't know what to do now. Shall we ask him to cut the worktop to fit the breakfast bar as per pic 1 or later on install it on top of the worktop as per pic 2?

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Boon Koh

6 years ago

Adding myself to this thread and bumping this back up, as would love to hear some professional opinions as I'm thinking of doing this too.

LTS: our kitchen fitter has recommended the same - holes through the quartz to screw the wood into the cabinets below, and then glue. But somehow it doesn't seem very stable, and also his recommendation is for the overlap width to be the same as the overhang width to counterbalance the weight (i.e. 30cm overhang means 30cm wood sitting on top of the counter).

I'm against using L-brackets or corbels, as they won't fit in with the look we're going for.

Would flat steel bars support under the wood block work? But then they would be sitting on the quartz? Or do we route rectangular channels in the quartz to accommodate these steel bars?

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deezerdee
6 years ago
Be really interested to see what the answer to this is - I would love to do the same
LTS
6 years ago
Hi what did you do? We have quartz worktop and the installers drilled holes in it ready for the wood to be screwed & glued on top. Unfortunately the quartz suppliers don't do wood so we need to source the wood elsewhere.
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LTS
6 years ago
Hi Boon Koh we have discussed it with a joinery specialist who thought gluing and screwing 200mm of the wood (total 500mm wide) would be adequate. I too would be interested in others opinions too :)
LTS
6 years ago
Hi is anyone any further with this? We still haven’t added the corner wooden breakfast bar as yet!
Boon Koh
6 years ago
I did. Here's what we did:

1) Bought a wood worktop (it was from a local company - Natural Wood Floor Co in Battersea London). It wasn't full wood - chipboard inside with wood veneer. I was told very similar to what you get in IKEA.

2) Got my kitchen fitter to plan where he was going to screw the worktop to the wood supports in the unit. Total of 6 screws planned

3) Quartz guy comes to install quartz, and based on the screw markings, cuts small holes in the quartz

4) Worktop screwed on top, no glue used. Out of 63cm, we had 30cm sitting on the quartz, and 33cm overhanging.

So far so good! We have been very delicate using it though as a breakfast bar, making sure we don't lean on it with elbows!
Daisy England
6 years ago
So do you use it, or is it really for aesthetic purposes?
Boon Koh
6 years ago
We've been having breakfast and dinner there every day (since we don't have a dining table yet) and its fully functional. Just not sure it can take huge amounts of weight!

Wood breakfast bar on quartz worktop?

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